IMO your output with the HS50 is about as good as you will get. [snip]. Maybe you will get a bit more out with RAW but IMO if you set your standards high as it appears you do then RAW probably won't cut it either. Good luck.

Which bridge camera -wouldn't- you say this about?

None. Unfortunately the bit you sniped was very important for the Fuji bridges. Their images are processed heavily in camera and caution is needed shooting them in JPG to avoid speckled noise and watercolour.

Not even the X-S1? I never shot mine in RAW, the JPEG's were that good.

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